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Market intelligence specialist语境’s最新的行业报告显示，在第2季度2021年第2季度，3D印刷行业最昂贵的机器的货物急剧上升。
该公司在本季度表示，在2020年Covid Hit的3D打印机的销售额超过20,000美元后，工业系统的雷电竞app下载最高生产商报告了“出色的有机运输增长”。尽管上下文的数据表明，这种运输仍未返回流行前的水平，但它还突出了用户如何转向3D打印以保护供应链，从而创造了未来的机会。
“As economies around the globe continued to recover from, battle against or learn to live with COVID-19, organizations began to settle into their new normal,” said Chris Connery, VP of Global Research at CONTEXT. “While capital expenditures were largely put on hold a year ago, spending had opened up by the second quarter of this year and this led to phenomenal year-on-year shipment growth.”
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语境’s latest figures reinforce what it found in Q1, that therecovery of Western 3D printing markets正在采取步伐，并暗示这种趋势很可能会持续到不久的将来。在2020年至2021年第2季度之间，该公司的数据表明，“工业”机器的发货价格超过100,000美元，上涨了61％，而“设计”系统的货物价格为20,000美元至100,000美元，也增加了43％。
尽管这些数字在2019年第二季度的前期时期占10％和5％的下降，但上下文指出，工业和设计恢复的运输量占其所有打印机收入的64％，占2021年第2季度的所有打印机收入。
与去年相比，公司报告飙升的中国国内货物，它还说，这种“超级激励”是“升级的”，大多数运输在北美都看到。特别是，该公司已经确定了前十名工业系统制造商中八个展示的增长是这种趋势的背后Stratasys，，，，3D系统和Uniontech所有这些都表现出色。
When it comes to customers, CONTEXT suggests that vendors saw a growth in demand from clients within their long-standing dental and aerospace verticals in Q2, as well as those in new sectors. In fact, according to the firm’s data, pandemic-induced supply disruption has now created an appetite among manufacturers to “explore technologies” which help mitigate future risks, including 3D printing.
Dovetailing desktop shipments
In stark contrast to the68% rise in desktop printer shipmentsit identified during H1 2020, due to an increase in home working because of COVID-19, CONTEXT has now reported a complete reversal of this trend in Q2 2021. The firm’s data shows that sales of the sub-$2,500 pre-built desktop category it dubs ‘professional’ machines, fell by some 32% from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021.
同样，上下文所指的“ DIY”系统的发货可能在同一时期增长了18％，但这标志着与前几个季度相比的增长水平明显低。尽管该公司的分析表明，树脂LCD机器似乎震惊了这一趋势，因为他们占所有在2021年第2季度出售的所有完全组装的打印机的46％，但它补充说，业余爱好者的需求正在“减弱”。
Comparatively, CONTEXT says that the shipments of more capable ‘professional’ printers, like those produced by标记或者光中心，，，，were less affected by the COVID outbreak in Q2 last year, thus their 38% annual increase is unsurprising.
该公司没有将这种增长归因于需求的增长，而是将其归功于已建立制造商在类别中推出的新机器。上下文亮点formlabs’基于SLS保险丝13D printer as a prime example of this, and also points to the strong annual shipping growth ofUniz，，，，Zortrax和桌面金属3D printers (via itsEnvisionTecsubsidiary), as being a key contributing factor.
Taking the wildly-varying Q2 performances of 3D printing’s different machine grades into account, the company has forecast that FY 2021 will end in “great year-on-year growth” for the sector, with shipments expected to be 9% above FY 2019 levels. However, according to Connery, these projections don’t necessarily represent organic growth, and the picture is slightly different once M&A activity is removed.
“Optimism needs to be tempered when it’s based on marketing activities associated with new public listings,” adds Connery. “The outlook for the 3D printer-only market is further clouded by the fact that individual companies have seen growth as a result of mergers and acquisitions, [but] even parsing out individual technology trends and focusing only on net-new shipments, forecasts for 2021 are robust.”
Cross-analyzing CONTEXT’s data
While market analyses aren’t always able to capture the complexities of their target sectors, on this occasion, CONTEXT’s appears to align with the financials published by 3D printing firms themselves. During Q2 2021,产品达到44％的收入增长，通过向牙齿销售产生大量的Straumann Group，，，，which is in keeping with the trends identified by CONTEXT.
同样，Markforged的财务业绩支持了上下文的主张，即第二季度期间的专业系统销售中看到的增长归功于新产品的推出。报告了44% annual revenue risefor the quarter, the firm’s CEO Shai Terem hailed the success of its “new key products and software updates” as being vital to its strategy of “meeting growing demand for its solutions.”
在其他地方，当涉及到并购活动康纳利（Connery）提到的是，众所周知，3D打印公司继续使用收购作为进入新市场的一种方式。在这种情况下，Stratasys最近用Xaar 3D购买，，，，in a move that will provide it with full control over a HSS development team, which will now work on its H Series systems moving forwards.
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